The project I'm testing this pilot credit with meets all but requirement 8, so the pilot credit has been "met". We've all worked on projects where an active use, lively peeks into a building's activities and multiple access points serve to "activate the street", particularly in dense urban areas with pedestrian activity. However, I wonder if there might be alternative ways of looking at this particular requirement. I'm looking at a courthouse, a building type that has programmatic reasons for not having 70% of the street front façade in windows or doors. It also has created a public plaza, a bosque of shade trees and a water feature in front of the "non-windowed art wall" that invite the public into the space. It seems as though creating this public space provides a reasonable alternative to the transparency of the facade itself. The solutions might be associated with particular setbacks from the street (large, in this case). Have alternatives to the glazed/opening percentage been proposed before? Perhaps in LEED ND? Curious.
Meeting 8 of 9 requirements is pretty stringent. Has that threshold proven viable?